Writing Tips for your story!
Hello everyone! I have a few tips that can improve your story as a whole. Please note that these are my personal opinions, and what I know that can help strengthen your story.
Trigger Warning, this discusses the problems of people using traumatic events within their story. Please do not read if this can cause harmful effects to you.
Always have a proof reader. Always re-read your story before publishing.
This is essential, it ensures that your story flows and small silly errors can be avoided/removed. Proof readers can help you notice where and what is wrong within your story.
Grammatical flaws.
Grammatical flaws can ruin someoneâs story as a whole. People tend to stop reading stories that have a lot of grammatical flaws, and if people read it, itâs due to a pity/âfunnyâ aspect of how âbadâ a stories grammatical faults are.
Traumatic Events!
This tip is a huge thing. PLEASE do not include traumatic events if youâre going to brush past them and âfixâ their trauma because the MC is in love. I have read many stories on episode where they casually throw in ârpeâ and domestic abuse, it almost feels like a character plot to make a character have something about them. Please remember if youâre going to write about traumatic events go into detail about how your character is affected by it. Merge their personality and their trauma, explain how that has affected them, what it will cause in the long run. Their trust issues, their worries, their fears. When you decide to implement such sensitive topics you need to know exactly how to execute it right.
I see so many stories that use rpe as a subplot and itâs never actually thought upon and their trauma isnât ever helped, they meet the main character and their trauma vanishes. You have to ask yourself questions, are you the right person to write this? What does this do to my character? Is this traumatic filler to gain empathy for my character? Please know exactly what youâre doing when it comes to writing traumatic events within your story.
Character progression.
When two characters meet (LI & MC) make sure their feelings and relationships are realistic. Realistically, people do not meet and fall in love instantly. Make sure that your pacing is not too long but not too fast.
Also, make sure you include character details. BUT⊠Do NOT do this in info dumping. Example of info dumping:
My name is âMain Characterâ I am 18 years old. I live here, I do this, I enjoy this, I go to this school, Iâm friends with this person. I donât like this person, I have a crush on this person.
This also goes with something called âtellingâ we want to find out and read the story not be told everything.
This is just a basic thing on episode. Learn how to code before publishing a story. Your coding does NOT have to be advance; however, basic coding is perfectly fine! Pans, zones, spotting, transitions, animations, etc. These all tie under basic directing and are pretty straightforward once you get the hang of it.
Choices!
While choices do not have to be implemented, it definitely can affect your story in a positive way! Readers that can interact and make choices they believe/do make an impact on the story can hook readers further into your story. Episode is also considered an interactive story, so itâs common for people to expect choices to be within your story. Complex choices DO not have to be included within your story! Simple choices that may âseemâ like they have an affect donât have to have one at all!
Plan, Plan, Plan!
Plan your story, know where you want your story to start, where you want your story to be at the middle, and the end. It can help your story a significant amount by simply planning how your story ends, this makes it so you have a goal to work towards. It also helps make your story flow much better!
Plots.
Do NOT rely on plot a, always have a backup plot if that plot doesnât work/is too long or short. Always have side plots too, it can strengthen your story to have simple side plots within your story.
MC.
Your main character shouldnât have everything happen for them, there should be inconveniences, there should be flaws within your character. They canât have everything magically work out for them. This ties with the traumatic aspect. When a character has traumatic pain, later on within the story, the main character cannot just get their own way and get everything they want. Your character has to be realistic. The world doesnât shine brightly on just your character.
There are a ton more, and I will most likely add to this. These are just some simple tips that can help your story as a whole.
